Ah thanks! Great photos. It's incredible that the record stayed intact when it landed on the ground. Oh and I know that his shirt is yellow but my color blind eyes think it's a copper/orange colored shirt and that makes me want to believe that he's wearing that to promote a future Racs album. (And yes I admit that sounds absolutely ridiculous)

You probably would've had a great time talking to Kevin, Matthew. He would've answered pretty much any question you'd ask about how it was built. For instance, we asked him if the triangular shape was chosen for structural or aesthetic reasons and he explained that a square or rectangular shape is too susceptible to torque, that a triangle is more rigid. And he was telling other people all about the batteries and the three settings of the tone arm.

He also told us that they had a bit of a fright during descent. They'd estimated that it would end up landing at about 15mph, but it actually came down at around 22mph. He said that as they were following it, he was afraid he was going to find it half-buried in a potato field and have to dig it up and pull potatoes out of it.

Yeah I would've loved to talk with him. I would've asked him a lot of unrelated questions, though. Like the forces and mathematical calculations involved in launches and then also some astrophysics/engineering stuff (unrelated to the shape of the object). And that does make sense about them choosing the triangle. That's pretty interesting about the landing speed.

It'd be interesting to see how much of that he could answer. He's actually a filmmaker. Remember that old auto commercial Jack was in? That was Kevin's commercial. He apparently does electronics and robotics as a hobby and got involved in this after showing Jack some little robots he'd made. He joked that after Jack asked him to design a craft to carry a record player into space, he didn't have time to play with his robots anymore. I'm sure you saw the info about his family's involvement with NASA, but apparently the launch portion was handled by the team from SATINS.

I think this interview with him was posted over here somewhere, but I can't recall for sure. Great read, especially in light of his involvement with this project-- http://jamiegoodsell...in-carrico.html

Only just now seeing this, for some reason. Thank you, J.C. And yes, Jack seemed very pleased with everything. He spent most of the event up on the mezzanine above the crowd and only came down to wade through the masses for two quick interviews